Evaluation Question 1

Q. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product?

Video Interview

Ans. In this year’s coursework my film genre was drama and as the industry was Bollywood so it was more towards Bollywood drama genre. I have followed all the conventions of a drama genre and the todorov’s narrative structure which is normally used in Bollywood drama genre. In my film there is first an equilibrium where there is an examination going on. When teacher catches the student cheating and beats him that is the conflict part. Flashback is the resolution part where the story unfolds and the teacher as well as the audience gets to know that the boy wasn’t cheating but the paper was a prayer from his mother. The new equilibrium is the slight change in teacher’s behavior and the conventional happy ending when the mother and child hug each other.

When it comes to the camera shots so I have followed the low and high angle shot convention. This means that the low angle shots are used for the dominating character to create an image of his character which was the teacher in my film. The low angle shots are used to show those characters which are being dominated or have low morale and motivation towards life which were the character of mother and his son in my film. Lighting of my film was the natural lighting on the location and I haven’t used any extra lights.

In editing the drama genre has a convention of cut to cut editing and simple editing. I initially did mistakes in editing with lots of effects of slow motions and fast motions but later I removed the unnecessary ones according to my teacher’s guidance as drama genre film needs to be simple. So the final edit was very much natural and easy for audience to relate to as the drama genre is a people oriented genre.

The sound and mise on scene of my film was also all natural and I didn’t created any artificial things as the drama genre has the convention of real locations and real sounds to give a real feeling to the audience which helps the audience to relate with the film, theme and the characters. So I choose a real location of an actual school and took all the natural sounds of the school as well to make the film more conventional.